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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author describe happening at the drugstore in Chapter 5?
(a) A man breaks in line ahead of her.
(b) Her friend slips and falls.
(c) Her card is declined.
(d) She is falsely arrested.

2. In Chapter 3, the author describes Judith Baker discussing what makes language hurtful. She writes that Baker's response is "We suffer from the condition of being" what?
(a) "Frightened."
(b) "Addressable."
(c) "Superior."
(d) "Angry."

3. The author claims in Chapter 5, "Listen, you, I was creating a life study of" what?
(a) "A clown."
(b) "A monumental first person."
(c) "Our ancestors."
(d) "An alienated and unkind soul."

4. How does the author respond when a friend says in Chapter 3, "You are always on sabbatical"?
(a) "I am not."
(b) "Easy."
(c) "Why not?"
(d) "I've never taken sabbatical."

5. What word from Chapter 5 means censored or obscured?
(a) Compelled.
(b) Impelled.
(c) Redacted.
(d) Depleted.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the man point out about his wife when he shows the author a picture of her in Chapter 5?

2. The author writes in Chapter 1, "You are reminded of a conversation you had recently, comparing the merits of sentences constructed implicitly with 'yes, and' rather than" what?

3. The author writes in Chapter 6, "My brother is completed by" what?

4. What color is described repeatedly throughout Chapter 5?

5. In the poetic section titled "Stop-and-Frisk" in Chapter 6, the author writes that "the charge the officer decided on was exhibition of" what?

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